State AmeriCorps Programs
Program: Alternative Classroom Experience/Summer Camp
Description: Residential, educational, and social development for school-age children in central Arkansas.
Sponsor: Kiwanis Activities, Inc. (Pfeifer Kiwanis Camp)
Contact: Binky Martin-Tollette
Address: 5512 Ferndale Cutoff Rd., Little Rock, AR 72223
Phone: 501-821-3714 | Fax: 501-821-2629 | email
Program: Arkansas Reads
Description: Statewide adult literacy and English as a second language tutoring.
Sponsor: Adult Learning Alliance of Arkansas
Contact: Belinda Sanders, Program Director
Contact: Nancy Leonhardt, ALC Executive Director
Address: 801 S. Louisiana St., Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-907-2490 | Fax: 501-907-2492 | email | email
Program: Boys and Girls Club of Central AR
Description: Support 1st through 12th grade youth engagement, service-learning strategies and summer programming that help achieve academic and behavioral outcomes for students in low-achieving elementary, middle, and high schools.
Contact: Cindy Doramus, CEO
Address: 1616 W. 3rd Street, Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-666-8816 | email
Program: Camp Alliance, Inc
Description: Members will provide activities to military kids on drill weekends and annual training weeks. They will help kids build skills to cope with stresses associated with being a military child.
Contact: Tracy Blackmon, Program Director
Address: 2203 Promenade Blvd, Suite 3200, Rogers, AR 72758
Phone: 651-332-0562 | Fax: 479-936-5920 | email
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Description: AmeriCorps members will be engaged in housing rehab and energy efficiency; and improved neighborhood safety and revitalization.
Sponsor: City of Little Rock
Contact: Matthew Higgins, Program Director
Address: 500 West Markham, Room 120W Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-607-8618 | email
Program: Community Service, Inc.
Description: Members will expand services of the organization by providing educational programs consisting of tutoring, mentoring and summer learning to youth ages 10-18
Contact: Jamie Higgins, Program Director
Address: PO Box 679, Morrilton, AR 72110
Phone: 501-354-4589 | Fax: 501-354-5410 | email
Program: Coordinated School Health
Description: Provide in-school physical activity, health knowledge and skills to make healthy life choices to 1st - 5th graders.
Sponsor: Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative
Contact: Jenny Saterlee/Jeri Craven, Co-Directors
Address: 1022 Scogin Drive, Monticello, AR 71655
Phone: 870-367-4869 | Fax: 870-367-9877 | email | email
Program: Future Teacher Initiative
Description: Early childhood educational development to prepare children for school.
Sponsor: Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative
Contact: Kim Pesaresi/Candace Howard, Co-Directors
Address: 1022 Scogin Drive, Monticello, AR 71655
Phone: 870-367-4830 | Fax: 870-367-9877 | email | email
Program: Food Bank of North Central Arkansas
Dewscription: Members will coordinate Cooking Matters programs, establish out of school meal programs, recruit volunteers, and develop plans to procure and distribute healthy foods.
Contact: Jeff Quick, Program Director | email
Contact: Shirley Clark, Program Director | email
Address: PO Box 128, Norfork, AR 72658
Phone: 870-499-7565 | Fax: 870-499-3500
Program: Girl Scouts—Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma & Texas
Description: Engage members to serve girls in poorly performing school districts grades K-12 focusing in the area of education.
Contact: Kim Burgess, Program Director
Address: 11311 Arcade Drive, Little Rock, AR 72212
Phone: 501-500-1850 l email
Program: Our House
Description: Provide job placement services and job support to unemployed and underemployed homeless or near-homeless adults; school-readiness interventions, development support and educational programming for pre-school children who are homeless or near-homeless.
Contact: Maureen Martin/Joy Ritchie
Address: 302 E. Roosevelt Road, Little Rock, AR 72206
Phone: 501-374-7383, ext. 238 | email | email
Program: Smart Start
Description: Math and literacy tutoring & mentoring for school-age children in southeast Arkansas.
Sponsor: Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative
Contact: Jenny Satterlee, Program Director
Address: 1022 Scogin Drive, Monticello, AR 71655
Phone: 870-367-4825 | Fax: 870-367-9877 | email
Program: Teach for America – Greater Delta
Description: Members serve as teachers in schools throughout Arkansas.
Contact: Tamela Garth, Program Director
Address: 1 World Avenue, 3rd Floor, Little Rock, AR 72202
Phone: 501-404-4051 | email
https://arkansas.teachforamerica.org
Program: ST. Joseph Center of Arkansas, Inc.
Description: Members will address food insecurity and help provide access to healthy foods via school and community gardens
Contact: Sandy DeCoursey, Program Director
Address: 6800 Camp Robinson Road, North Little Rock, AR 72118
Phone: 501-993-4560 | email | email